farfel_n03_010_138

138
Sept. '82
J.S. Edgren, Carmel
$25
Oryun haengsilto - illust. examples of the 5 basic Confucian obligations (paper with wood block printed text + illustration)
Chongnija type of 1795. Printed 1797, soon after the
#15 font was cast, + including text in Chinese + Korean
plus woodcut illustration 3 half-folios
Format: 10 columns of 20 characters Size of type face
Border: double, 22x14.5cm(1/2 folio) L. 1.1x1.4
Copy: Seoul National Univ. S. 1.1x0.7
Kyokgjaech'uk - a collection of eulogies by King Chongjo (r.1796-1800) +
his ministers - printed 1795 - among the first books
published with chongnija. Another early publication was
Oryun haengsilto (1797) which is complete in 4 volumes
+ contains excellent Korean woodcut illustrations.
A fine at the Bureau of Type - casting (Chajaso) of
the Government Printing Office in 1857 destroyed the
original chongnija font, but it was promptly re-cast
the following year, + maintains the dignified style of
its predecessor.
-hangul - the newly invented Korean alphabet - promulgated
in 1446.
-onhae Type of Korean book -refers to paraphrase translations
into Korean of Chinese texts generally Buddhist - indirectly
contributed to preserving hangul script.

Printing with movable types ceased in Korea about 1544, but was
resumed again for a time in 1770.
Melvin McGavean - Cast in Seoul, this bronze type was modeled after the Sueng-
saeng -Je of 1792. Types cast for this font 140,000 small
characters + 160,000 large. This type was so popular that
one year after the great fire of 1857 it was on of the 1st to
be selected for recasting by the Publications Office. This
type is now started at the Kyongbok Palace in Seoul.
Most books printed from this type have 10
perpendicular lines of 20 characters each on a page.